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PAGE TWO Slizard SYNOPSIS THE CHARACTERS: FABIENNE SEYMOUR, rich, young and beautiful. NICKY BARTLETT, wealthy and in love with Fabienne. ELLEN CHAPMAN, young and capable mistress of Willoughby house. DR. BILL MALLORY, close friend of Ellen's. YESTERDAY: Attracted by Bill Mal lory, but afraid of hurting I. Kn. Fa bienne suddenly leaves Willoughly house after three months, ha\in o won her bet with Nicky. CHAPTER TEN GERTRUDE, Comtesse de Ligne, maintained a nine-room apart ment in New York and a small house in Paris, both rather band some menages. But it was Wil loughby hall, old and white and gracious as the beauty of the belle who had come to it as a bride, nestling in a Maryland valley twenty miles from Baltimore, ..hat was home to Gertrude’s daughter, Fabienne Seymour. It had not always been known as Willoughby hall. It was Carl Sey mour who had left it to Mark and Edna Willoughby—having nothing else to leave to his brother and sister-in-law who had been father and mother to his children after his divorce from Gertrude W illoughby, who had cared less for her children than the glitter of European soci ety. It was his one gesture to leave the security of a home to his chil dren. Richard Seymour had built it for his bride, lovely, spirited Fabienne de Courcy, who came from France to attend a ball in New Orleans and never returned to her native land. They had met and married a decade before the Civil war. None of her dark beauty, but all'of her love for the hall, and her spirit, she had left to find its clear trace in her granddaughter. The room that had been Fa bienne’s since she could remember had been the bridal chamber of that first Fabienne. It’s walls were hung with the now-faded hand-woven silk that had been brought from France. The painted fire screen, the long oval mirror, the flowered car pet and the spindle-legged chairs that once had served Fabienne de Courcy, were tributes to her grace and femininity. Lying on the big bed with its headboard of tufted satin, Fabienne Seymour, on that first morning of her return to Maryland, let her eyes sweep lazily over the room and was aware for the first time that it no longer seemed like HER room. It was the room of another wom an—a belle. But was not she, Fa bienne, a belle? She arrived at dinner time the evening before and already the in vitations had come by telephone and messenger. “Yes, yes,” she had said to them all. The invitation to the Hunt ball, the Bachelor’s dance, the’Hallo well and Jackson parties. “Yes, I’d love to!” To ride with Tom and Jane and Nicky; to tea with young masters at the school that Uncle Mark headed. She was, and she intended 10 continue, being a belle. Those three months of service in New York would mean nothing to her. No more than they should mean. She’d done it merely to prove to herself that she could. She’d done it and now she would go back to being what she really was. True, she no longer a rich girl who could send her bills to her great grandfather But she had enough money to live pleasantly. She’d always have this home with Uncle Mark and Aunt Edna. Gertrude would finance a trip to Europe if she wanted one. And when sho wished to marry, there was Nicky waiting for her. And days of grace and comfortable living. There was a silver cord that hung beside the tufted satin bed. A touch of her hand would summon old Molly. But the habit formed during three months of routine, eating breakfast when she was dressed, with an eye on the clock, was upon her; she threw back the soft blankets and ran into her bath. She brushed her silky hair, pow dered her nose and hastily applied Stocks Trade Still Is Dull New York, Nov. 28.—(AP) —Steels returned to favor in today’s -stock market and helped prop many other recently wavering issues. While deal ings were quiet throughout, gains ran to more than a point at the best. Mild profit-taking eventually appeared and prices were shaded in most cases, near the fourth hour. Business news remained encourag ing for speculative forces, 'out brok erage quarters were a bit depressed by the fact that demand for shares was still far under the mrak where | commission houses can operate in the black. American Radiator 10 3-8 American Telephone 169 3-4 American Tobacco B 82 1-2 Anaconda 31 7-8 Atlantic Coast Line 25 1-2 Atlantic Refining 22 Bendix Aviation 29 1-4 Bethlehem Steel 83 3-4 Chrysler 85 3-4 Columbia Gas & Elec Co ... . 6 5-8 Commercial Solvents 13 5-8 Consolidated Oil Co 7 5-8 Curtiss Wright 10 1-8 DuPont 178 1-2 Electric Power Light 7 1-2 General Electric 39 3-4 General Motors 54 Liggett & Myers B 101 Montgomery Ward & Co .... 55L-1-8 Reynolds Tobacco B 40 Southern Railway 20 Standard Oil Co N J 45 3-8 JJ S Steel 68 1-2 / She scaled the hurdle fences as easily as a slim-legged boy. a scarlet lipstick. Haste. She had no need of haste now. It was not yet nine o’clock, and she had noth ing to do on schedule for the rest of her life. It was a strange feeling that she experienced, being used by now to crowded hours. Her trunks were not unpacked. Molly would do that later. She hunted about in the closet and found an old pair of jodhpurs, boots and a riding jacket. There were some silk shirts in the highboy drawer. She dressed hastily, feeling a longing to ride, feeling her first sense of anticipation in weeks. Mark and Edna were breakfast ing before the fire in the library. “Well!” They greeted her with smiles, surprised. “Hello, darling,” she said. "Any breakfast for me?” “We thought you’d have it in bed, dear,” Aunt Edna said. “You look as if you needed a rest . . . Hector! Breakfast for Miss Fa bienne.” Hector brought in a tray of dishes —hot breads and eggs scram bled with chicken livers, a steal ing pot of bubbling chocolate. He put a fresh log on the fire and dropped a cushion in back of Fa bienne, who had drawn a big chair up to the table. In the hall, the grandfather’s clock chimed ten musical t>ells. Fabienne sipped her chocolate and a row of little bright-eyed faces came before her and the headlines of the newspaper Marl; had placed before her. Bright, hungry eyes in little wan or swarthy faces. Bright little smiles as those faces turned to her each morning when she poured hot cocoa into thick mugs. The tex o’clock morning lunch at the settlement house. Cocoa gulped hungrily. Crackers that disap peared into baby mouths. Always hungry little mouths. Well, she wouldn’t have to think of that any more. That was the way the world was. Always filled with hungry little children. And there were always people to feed them. Fabienne Seymour wasn’t needed. That was over and there was something else for her to do. “Riding this morning?” her uncle asked her. "Trading,” she said. “Hoss-trad in’.” “On Sunday?” Edna asked gen tly. “Not exactly trading, darling. Collecting a bet. From Nicky. His mare Betsy is mine now.” Slv told them about the bet she’d made with Nicky that September, morning. “I wouldn't take Retr.v, Fa Cotton Shows Slight Gains New York, Nov. 28.—(AP)— Cot ton futures opened two to five points higher. After moving ahead to net gains of as much as six to ten points, prices edged off a shade and around the end of the first hour held three to seven points higher. Prices resumed their rise in the late forenoon, * trading, and around midday stood seven to thirteen points net higher. Big Cruiser Torpe doed, Berlin Says (Continued From Page One) either mine or torpedo near the Firth of Forth. BRITISH PRESS SERVICE ISSUES FORMAL DENIALS London, Nov. 28. (AP) —The au thoritative British press association said tonight in a note to editors; “The rumor is abroad that a Brit ish battleship has been sunk, and for your information we are informed that there is no truth whatever in it.” (A Berlin communique said a Bri tish heavy cruiser had been tor pedoed and destroyed; it did not men tion a battleship.) In official quarters it was said nothing was known concerning the German claim that a British heavy cruiser had been destroyed. It was suggested that this arose from be lief in Germany that the cruiser Bel fast had been sunk. The Admiralty has admitted that the Belfast was HENDERSON, (N. C.) DAILY DISPATCH TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1939 bienne,” Edna said. “But, of course, you know best.” “Edna’s superstitious,” Mark said, with an affectionate glance for his wife. “She thinks that good should be done for goodness’ sake alone.” “That’s because she is good,” Fa bienne told him. “But I’m not good. I’m one of the selfish girls. Hard, that’s me. Out for what does the most for Fabienne. Now I’ve got to run along. I don’t want to waste this beautiful morning. I’ll see you some time this afternoon. I’m lunching with the Jacksons.” It was a beautiful day. Cold and crisp, but dry. Not like the cold, damp mornings in New York. The evergreens were bright and the sky sparkled overhead as she marched across the fields and scaled the hur dle fences as easily as a slim-legged boy. The Bartlett’s place was a half mile across the country and coming in sight of its many wings, Fa bienne whistled softly to herself. She had forgotten how imposing it was. And one day it might all be hers. She skirted the grounds and en tered from the back, making her way to the stables. Nicky, as she had supposed, was already in the saddle. He greeted her with a sleepy wave of his arm. She said, “Well, Brighteyes! All set for a canter? Isn’t it a heavenly day?” He groaned. “You’re the only woman in the world that could get me up at this hour on Sunday. I’ve told Sam to bring Betsy around. I’ll have her papers transferred to morrow.” The sun went behind a cloud for a moment. A rooster crowed some where off to the left and one sharp guL. of wind blew across Fa bienne’s face. She shivered slightly. “Edna’s superstitious. She thinks good should be done for goodness’ sake alone.” Fabienne said, “Are you super stitious, Nicky?” “Not much. I guess we all are a little.” “Not me,” she told him stoutly. “There’s going to be no pay off or that wager, Nicky. I’m not going to take Betsy.” “Why not?” She said casually, “Oh, I can’t afford to keep a mare. You keep her and I’ll borrow her.” It was pretty silly of her, she thought, when she was mounted on the spirited little mare, but she felt better about it. (To Re Continued! damaged by a mine or to pedo off the Firth of Forth November 21. British Navy Cleared Out, Germans Say (Continued From Page One) was announced today, as saying they were “one hundred percent surpris ed” to find a whole Germany navy group, including at least one heavy cruiser, so far out in the Atlantic. (The British Admiralty announced that the Rawalpindi was sunk by the German 10,000-ton pocket battle ship Deuttschland, which technically is a heavy cruiser. London dispatches said a British rescue ship had landed eleven survivors, and the Admiralty had estimated that about 30 men had been saved by the Germans. They listed the remainder of the crew of almost 300 as lost.) , German experts who are authoriz ed to inform the foreign press state that the British have been so fright ened by the combined German navy and air prowess that they have or dered the navy to withdraw from both the North Sea and the North Atlantic. The engagement of German units with the Rawalpindi is described as the first between German and Eng lish fighting craft. This, however, does not take into account possible encounters in other parts of the world, of which German naval au thorities learn only through neutral or enemy reports. Military experts further claimed supremacy in the air over all of France and practically all of England. Last week alone, they said, scout ing planes flew over the British naval base of Scapa Flow, north of Scotland three times, bringing to nine the total number of such flights since the beginning of the war. spot Km State Department Keeps Eye On Pacific While Also Watching Europe By PRESTON GROVER Washington, Nov. 28. —The State Department is keeping a weather eye out on Europe but the real trouble spot for this country just now is Japan. It will be the headline-maker around the first of the year. It would be hard to find two na tions so actively engaged in ruffling each other’s feelings while at peace as the United States and Japan. Naturally, both sides claim to he right. Each claims the other is pur suing a course which fails to take into consideration the realties of the situation. Pro and Con Japan insists that the United States, along with all other non- Oriental nations, fails to “under stand” that there is a “new order” in the Orient. The assertion that others do not understand me pe culiar problems of trie Orient is a favorite one of the Japanese. On th? contrary, the United States declares it very well understands the situation. Japan, says the United States, deliberately set out to make over China in its own image, all in violation of international law and in violation of treaties Japan had signed with other countries. Debate Goes On The Japanese always insist that the United States is being used by the Br tish as a catspaw to protect British interests in the Orient. The United States says its interest is governed by a large concept— equality of opportunity once egreed to by a group of nations cannot be changed simply by one nation. “Failure to observe that princi ple”, said Afbassador Grew in a comprehensive statement to the Jap anese of the U. S. Position, “breeds international frictio nand ill-will, with consequences injurious to all countries, including in particular those countries which fail to ob serve it.” Japan apparently forgot to read closely enough the part of that sen tence after the last comma. Also it evidently forgot to read the next part of the same paragraph, in which Grew said: “Observance of that principle (of equal opportunity) promotes the opening of trade channels thereby making available the markets, the raw materials and the manufac tured products of the community of nations on a mutually and recipro cally beneficial basis.” That should have told Japan that such things as embargoes of raw materials were being discussed in the United States. But Japan didn’t take the hint. The annoying block ade of the British area in Tientsin— including the public strippings and searching—was extended in part to Americans. Reprisals came fairly fast. Sen ator Pittman, chairman of the for eign relations committee, who fre auently acts under State Department guidance, introduced a resolution calling for an embargo against Ja pan. Hot on its heels came the U. S. denunciation of the 28-year-old trade treaty with Japan. If the United States had wanted simply to exert pressure on Japan it could have done so forcefully and effectively while negotiating a new treaty. But iust now it is popular to lash th° Japanese, so they got it in the teeth. The Japanese have replied in kind. Within the past few days a detailed report was filed with the State Department of the increasing restrictions imposed by Japanese on Yankee operations in China. Urologists Meet At Biloxi Dec. 8 For Annual Meet Biloxi, Miss., Nov. 28.—Some qf the country’s leading urologists will address the annual convention of the Southeastern branch of the American Urological Association, which meets here Dee. 8 and 9. The convention will attract mem ber-physicians from nine southern states and others. Speakers include a group of prominent urologists, such as hardly could be found on any other program throughout the country. Os particular interest will be the report of Lt. Col. J. E. Ash, curator of the Army Medical Museum, Washington, D. C., on Bladder Tu mors. He has studied over 3,000 tu mors of the bladder and kidneys and graded these. It is said to be largely through his efforts and accuracy that physician know better how to treat and cure tumors. Dr. Rubin Flocks, lowa City, Uni versity lowa, in his address will deal -\vith the influence metabolism has in producing stones in the kid ney. HJRgHHr dOfa ♦ j n *4 jfl m j JW i Jm Bank | HI Tyrone Power and Linda Darnell in Daytime Wife”— Stevenson Thurs day and Friday. I Ex-Governors Will Return At Government Institute Meet Chapel Hill, Nov. 28.—“ Now when you were Governor, and you, and you, and you— , “That’s the way the conversation in the group might conceivably run when the Institute of Government opens its new $50,000 laboratory here Wednesday night. Governor Clyde Hoey will not only attend and take part, Director Albert Coates announced today, but rdl of the State’s living former gov ernors, Ehringhaus, Gardner, and Morrison, have been invited and are exp\ded to be present. Preparations for the event were being completed today, and an at tendance of several hundred federal, state and local officials was ex pected. Speaker William B. Bankhead, who is accompanying the North Carolina Congressional delegation here for the event and who will make the principal address Wednes day night, was expected to arrive this afternoon. Lieutenant Governor W. P. Hor ten and Speaker D. L. Ward joined in the invitations to the members of the General Assembly to take part. Local Democratic, Republican, Young Democratic, Young Republi can, and election chairmen have Horton Scoffs At Rumor of Withdrawal (Continued From Page Onej sincerity when he said he wasn t go ing to be dragged in or tossed out simply because some group does or does not back him. For the past week or ten days Ra leigh has buzzed with reports that the lieutenant governor can be count ed out as a gubernatorial derby start er, the assigned reason being that he has been given the well-konwn double cross by the administration which, the rumors have it, first in duced him to consider running, then changed its mind and is now veer ing sharply in the direction of James Melville Broughton, Raleigh attor ney. Still more recent reports have gained a modicum of currency that Governor Clyde R. Hoey and the ad ministration may decide to line up behind Dr. Clarence Poe, editor of the Progressive Farmer. Why this should be so has not yet been ex plained, and until something better than the mere wish appears to be be hind the thought, tnose who know politicians best are shying off from the idea. Without denying the re ports, which may be based on the most reliable of information, there is an inclination to suspect its com plete veracity. Dr. Poe was first mentioned as a gubernatorial possibility by this bu reau months ago, and the story was immediately followed by a favorable editorial reaction in many parts of Being'lU^^^^S Y money to spend. Rut don’t for- * f get there’s also plenty of fun to be had “on the way up” to affluence. here’s the real thing in precision-made || mechanisms, not just a stopgap to tide 11 There’s the satisfaction of achieving you over. something better than you re used to— You roll your steady, even-going, firm- |f stepping up, for instance, to this smart, riding way, and the taut, staunch, || swift, solid Buick after youve been everywhere-substantial feel of this fine driving run-of-the-mill cars. carriage brings a sense of “getting some- | where” as satisfying as your first gilt- I Just you feel the silk-smooth surge of its edged bond. great 107 horsepower micropoise-bal- e . . A . If , A . . . . . , Suppose you have to stretch a bit to P anced straight-eight engine - and you , ... T} . . .. r , W , . , . . , , buy this Buick —well, you 11 find that m know that all that went before was only ... / ... . I ... A . . *.. ~ will only make you prize this great eight m preliminary to this big thrih. ~ ~ . v all the more! You flip the firm, easy gearshiff-and the So go look at the car that can mark a « click of its action under your hands says milestone in your life. It doesn t cost a || thing to find out how little it will stand f| The ?nodel illustrated is the Buick Super model you delivered. 51four-door touring sedan sllO9 delivered at Flint , Mich. Whiie sidewall tires additional . No extra charge for the two-tone finish shown* * HauL also been invited jointly by the In stitute and their respective State heads, Gregg Cherry, J. F. Newell, Forrest Pollard, E. H. Stanley, and W. A. Lucas. The complete program for the opening of the new laboratory, which is the first of its kind in America and which is unique in that it serves city, county, State, and federal officials and also private citizens, teachers, and students, was announced today. The meeting will open with reg istration and inspection of building and exhibits from 4 to 6 o’clock Wednesday afternoon, followed by a supper meeting at 6:30 o’clock. The main meeting will be a joint session at Hill Music Hall at 8 o’clock on the changing relation ships of federal, State and local government units with Speaker Bankhead making the principal ad dress and with the public invited. A reception for Speaker Bank head will follow at Graham Me morial at 10 o’clock. Members of the State’s Congress ional delegation will preside over joint meetings of officials from their respective districts Thursday mor ning, terminating in time for Thanksgiving dinner and the Caro lina-Virginia football game. flic State. There is no denying that the doctor, an agricultural expert of the first rank and a man with a Horatio Alger life story, would be a candidate with a wide appeal to many and varied elements of the voters; but he has never been a poli tician in the generally accepted sense of the term, and it is rather A Real Necessity In Every Office THE CITY DIRECTORY The Modern Up-To-Date Method 0 Getting Accurate Information Quickly A Time Saver—A Money Maker For Every Business —Let Us Show You Hoy Southern Directory Co. “Publishers Os ■Miller’s Quality Directorie.-' difficult to envision sue politicos as make uni y tion getting behind' a ■ They usually prefer to who speaks their lam, and Clarence Poe do* Eat your dessert h • physician. Maybe so. to wind up a meal • - soup? today a ~ nail SteVBSS ; TOMORROW OMv"*^ “PACK UP YOUR TROUBLES” With JANE WITHERS THE RITZ nuns. Betty Boop And 0 r( .; 5 . >>it STATE TheairT 10c—15c TODAY LON CHANEY. 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